Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Nigeria: A Hell-Hole For Christians!

By Femi Fani-Kayode

“We
will defeat radical Islamic terrorism and we will not allow it to take root in
our country…we will wipe it off the face of the earth.”

– President Donald J. Trump.

Now
that is a real President talking! Sadly our ailing Head of State does not
possess such a mindset and neither does he share such a disposition. Unlike
Trump he does not have an aversion to such evil.

Consequently
he has refused to apprehend, caution, arrest or prosecute even one member of
the radical Islamist Fulani supremacists and terrorists since he came to power
just less than two years ago even though they have butchered thousands of innocent
Christians, burnt their homes and occupied their land.

A few days ago, in
a letter inviting President Goodluck Jonathan to make a presentation about the
plight of Christians in Nigeria, the Chairman of the United States Congress’s
Sub-Committee on Africa, Global Health, Human Rights and International
Organisations, Congressman Christopher Smith, wrote the following: “my subcommittee has broadly investigated
the crises facing Christians in Nigeria today. My staff director, Greg Simpkins
and I have made several visits toNigeria,
speaking with Christians and Muslim religious leaders across the country and
visiting fire-bombed churches, such as in Jos. Unfortunately,Nigeriahas
been cited as the most dangerous place for Christians in the world and impunity
for those responsible for the killing of Christians seem to be widespread.”

When one considers the sheer horror that the
Christians of northernNigeriahave been subjected to over the last
56 years can anyone dispute Smith’s assertion? Yet it did not stop there. Mr.
Douglas Murray, an influential and respected columnist in theUnited Kingdom’s Spectator
Newspaper painted a graphic picture of what has become the norm in
northernNigeriarather well. Last week, in a widely
read essay titled ‘Who Will Protect Nigeria’s Northern Christians’ he wrote as
follows: “A few days before any attack, a
military helicopter is spotted dropping arms and other supplies into the areas
inhabited by the Fulani tribes. Then the attack comes. For reasons of Islamic
doctrine, the militia often deliver a letter of warning. Then they come, at any
time of night or day, not down the dirt tracks, but silently through the
foliage. The Christian villagers, who are forbidden to carry arms (everyone is,
in theory), have no way to defend themselves. With some exceptions, they also
tend to believe what they were taught about turning the other cheek”.

With contributions and interventions like this
from our friends in the international community it appears that the world is
finally waking up and recognising the fact that northernNigeriais in the grip of a great,
blood-craving and blood-lusting evil. The frightful events that took place inSouthern Kadunaover the Christmas holidays are still
fresh in our minds and neither will we EVER forget them.

Yet sadly the carnage did not stop there. It
continues on a regular and systematic basis. For example 40 more Christians
were killed and many of their houses were burnt to the ground by Islamist
Fulani militias on February 1st in a town called Mummuye in the Lau Local
Government Area of Taraba state. Little girls were raped and chopped up like barbecue
spare ribs. Young boys were sodomised and beheaded. Grown men were castrated
and hacked to pieces. Old men were gutted and sliced up like spring onions. And
women, both young and old, were slowly tortured and violently violated in the presence
of their husbands, children and grandchildren after which their throats were
slit open and their blood drained into fly-infested gutters and the dark night
soil.

This is the work of heartless vampires and
demons in human flesh. This is carnage and butchery in its rawest and most
primitive form. This is a festival of horror and a frightful testimony of man’s
inhumanity to man. This is evil. This is unacceptable. This is barbaric. This
is condemnable. And whether anyone likes to admit it or not, this isNigeriatoday. The only thing left to say is
to pray that the souls of those that were slaughtered in cold blood rest in
peace. The Holy Bible says “fear not
those that can kill the body but fear the one that can throw the soul into
hell”.

The Fulani jihadists and Janjaweed militias may
be able to kill our bodies and take away all that is dear to us but, because we
are believers and we are rooted in Christ, they cannot take our precious and
eternal souls. The Holy Bible says “He
who watches overIsraelneither sleeps nor slumbers”. It
says “many are the afflictions of the
righteous but the Lord delivers him of them all”. These words bring life.
They stir the spirit and they re-ignite soul. They are our strength, our hope
and our salvation. They are the only redeeming factor in this entire ugly
episode and unholy mess. They are the consolation that we have whilst the evil
and the horror of Christian genocide and mass murder continuous to ravage and
afflict our beleaguered people and plague our blood-soaked land.

The truth is that I speak for millions when I
say that we have had enough. And let me take this opportunity to let those that
care to know, friend and foe alike, precisely what my mindset is and how this
mindless slaughter and ethnic and religious genocide has shaped my thinking. My
politics and views are unapologetically right wing. They have always been and
they always will be. I am proud to say that I belong to the far right when it
comes to the political spectrum. I am an evangelical Christian and I am an
ethnic nationalist. I believe in the right of the Yoruba people of
south-westernNigeriato haveOduduwaRepublicif that is their wish. I believe in
the right of the Igbo people of south-easternNigeriato haveBiafraif
that is their wish. And I believe in the right of every ethnic nationality to
exercise their right of self-determination if that is their wish.

I believe that anything less than that is an
assault on their freedom and an eloquent testimony to servitude and slavery. I
believe that the sheer volume of innocent blood that has been spilled and shed
on Nigerian soil has made the nation, as it is presently constituted,
irredeemable and repugnant to God. It must be rededicated to the Lord and
restructured and, failing that, it must be broken into two or more pieces. When
it comes to the international plain I support the strong men and women of our
day: the visionaries and the nationalists who, I believe, put the interests of
THEIR countries first before anything else.

For example I love President Donald Trump of
theUnited States of Americaand I admire President Vladimer Putin
ofRussiaand Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
ofIsrael.
I agree with most of their views and I support most of their right wing
nationalist policies. I am also thrilled at the fact that they are all men of
passion and conviction and that they are all men of strong faith. That is very
important to me and I have a similar disposition. I respect Mr. Nigel Farage
MEP of theUnited Kingdom’s UKIP,
Madame Marine Le Pen ofFrance’s National Front,
Mr. Geert Wilders ofHolland’s
Freedom Party and virtually every other right wing European politician and
leader. I believe that they are saying and doing what is best for their
respective countries and people and I am constrained to say and do what is best
for mine.

Like them I believe that the greatest threat to
humanity, the nation-state, the freedoms that we cherish and world peace today
is the rising power of radical Islam and Islamist terror. In the Nigerian
context I believe that the greatest threat to the peaceful co-existence of our
people today is the barbarity of the Islamic fundamentalists that are in our
midst and the evil and sheer wickedness of the genocidal maniacs and murderous
barbarians that are known as the Fulani militias and herdsmen. Any person that
places the value of a cow higher than the life of a human being is not fit to
be described as human. And that is the demonic disposition of those herdsmen
that kill innocent men and women at the drop of a hat and that I have come to
despise.

They prey on the defenceless, the weak and the
vulnerable and they drink and bathe in the blood of innocents and infants. I
despise the concept of a hybrid mongrel state where integration with ethnic and
religious incompatibles is the norm and where I am expected to sacrifice my
ethnicity and religious beliefs and faith on the altar of an artificial,
iniquitous and cruel man-made mega-nation. Given what the Christian community
in northernNigeriahas been subjected to for the last one
year and seven months, I despise and have nothing but contempt for that concept
and I pray every day for the restructuring or redefinition ofNigeria.
This is because, in my view, the rest of us have nothing in common with the
core northern Fulani herdsmen and militias and their friends and sponsors in
high places. We come from a different world and espouse a different tradition.
Keeping us together in one nation is like putting two big lions together in a
small cage. One may be dominant for a while but when the second one comes of
age and has had enough, all hell will break loose and they will fight to the
death. At the end of that struggle only one of them will be left standing. That
is where we have got to inNigeriatoday.

It is time to open the cage and let us go
before we kill each other. A so-called nation where 808 people are killed by
Islamist Fulani militias on Christmas eve and Christmas day inSouthern Kadunasimply because they are non-Fulanis
and they are Christians is not a nation: it is an abattoir. To the Fulani
militants the Christians of Nigeria are not human beings: they are nothing but sallah rams and Christmas turkeys fit
only for the slaughter. It is instructive to note that President Goodluck
Jonathan is the only former President of Nigeria that has had the courage to
speak out against the killing of Christians in the north. He analysed the
matter in a comprehensive and extensive manner and he proffered solutions to
the problem in a presentation to the United States House Sub-Committee on
Africa, inWashingtonD.C.on February 1st 2017.

He said,
inter alia, “Your invitation letter profusely highlighted the issues of the
killing of Christians inNigeria, the last major
incident being the recent killings in Southern Kaduna inKadunastate. The challenge is how do we stop
that from recurring? How do we ensure that Christians and Muslims cohabit
peacefully inNigeriaand practice their religions freely
without discrimination, molestation and killings? One school of thought
believes that these killings re-occur because of impunity. Security and law
enforcement bodies unfortunately have a history of failing to apprehend the
culprits of previous killings and disturbances and punishing them according to
the law. Such impunity has emboldened and encouraged persons with such
tendencies…

“If,
as a nation, we do not kill religious persecution and extremism, then religious
persecution and extremism will killNigeria.
The potential danger associated with the level of conflicts going on across the
country is so glaring that no sane mind can ignore it…The Boko Haram Islamic
terrorist sect has been classified as the most deadly terror group in the world
by the Global Terrorism Index. Herdsmen operating in and aroundNigeriaare listed as the fourth most deadly
terror group… My belief is that the day theU.S.government and the Russian government
decide to work together, that will surely mark the beginning of the end of
global terror”.

President Jonathan’s intervention and counsel
is gratifying and it gives us hope. I commend him for his courage. As for the
other so-called leaders, including former Heads of States and Presidents, that
have refused to condemn, show concern or proffer solutions to the nefarious and
abominable activities of the Fulani militias and the religious genocide that is
taking place in the north, one thing remains clear: the blood of those that
were slaughtered is on their hands as much as it is on the hands of those that
are doing the killing.

Why? Because they have joined hands with President
Buhari and others and decided to turn a blind eye to what is fast turning into
the greatest and most comprehensive catalogue of crimes against humanity,
ethnic cleansing and mass murder in African history. I wonder how they can
sleep well at night? God is watching!